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Update and Coming in 2023
Dec. 23, 2022, 12:33 p.m.Here's where things are at the moment. I made a batch of SquishBox kits and units available in the store, after a short delay waiting for parts and making some…
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FluidPatcher Power Up
May 17, 2021, 4:31 p.m.I was poking around in the Fluidsynth code as a result of trying to figure out a slick way to monitor MIDI messages and realized I could get FS to…
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New Lesson Video!
March 6, 2021, 12:24 p.m.A third video in the FluidPatcher lesson series is up! This one is all about using control change messages to their maximum capability. As usual, creating these lesson videos prompts…
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ModSynth Update
Feb. 24, 2021, 9:39 p.m.I took some time to add and properly adjust a bunch of modulators in the ModSynth font. Now one has easy access to most of the useful synth parameters via…
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Maybe Break Stuff?
Feb. 17, 2021, 2:37 p.m.I just realized bank files are designed wrong! Right now, keywords like router_rules, cc, and cc_links can be used within individual patches or at bank level (i.e. zero indent). Bank-level…
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Update/Install Script
Feb. 11, 2021, 12:45 a.m.I devoted a couple days to some bash programming and wrote a script for Raspberry Pi that can install/configure everything for the SquishBox or headless Pi synth. The user selects…
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FluidPatcher Lessons
Dec. 14, 2020, 10:15 p.m.I posted the first of a series of lessons on using FluidPatcher on YouTube! I've been meaning to get these up for a while, hopefully they show people the amazing…
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Squishbox Editor: FluidPatcher Desktop Mode
Aug. 15, 2020, 7:23 a.m.FluidPatcher has had the wxpython-powered desktop implementation wxfluidpatcher.pyw for a bit, but I've added a couple things to make it more complete (e.g. settings menu) and written a simple implementation…
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Headless Pi Synth
June 10, 2020, 4:59 p.m.I've put together a headless implementation of FluidPatcher that works on a Raspberry Pi without the need for any extras (i.e. buttons/screens) by polling for specific CC messages to change…
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This is How We Do it
May 1, 2020, 9:32 p.m.I've spent the last week working up a wxpython implementation of fluidpatcher that works as a cross-platform editor and player of patches. This makes it easy to quickly create, test,…